Match booking machine



April 23 1940- w. c. NlcoDEMUs 2.198.086 MATCH BOOKING MACHINE Filed June '7, 1939 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 5,4 l Il, 56

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w, c. NlcoDEMus MATCH BOOKING MACHINE Fild June 7, l 1939 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 W. C. NICODEMUS MATCH BOOKING MACHINE Filed June'v, 1939 5 sheets-sheet s M, mw mm 23, 1940. w. c. NxcoDEMUs MATCH BOOKING MACHINE Filed June 7, 1939 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 MATCH BOOKING MACHINE Filed June 7, 1939 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 w. NlcoDEMus 2,198,086 A Patented Apr. 23, 1940 UNlTED STATES rA'rNT. OFFICE 1 y MATCH BOOKING MACHINE N. Y., a 'corporation of Delaware Application June 7, 1939, Serial No. 277,849

Claims.

This invention relates to match booking machines, and more particularly to a machine of the type embodying mechanism whereby flexible covers are successively positioned in the active 5. path of an oscillating blade which is effective to fold each cover and insert it in an intermittentllr movable carrier by means of which the folded covers are borne progressively to' match assembling and other mechanisms. A machine of the type referred to is disclosedin United States Patents No. 1,042,472, dated October 29, 1912; No. 1,479,481, dated January 1, 1924; and No. 1,886,496, dated November 8, 1932, to which patents reference may be had.

The principal object of my invention is to pro-v vide simpleand efficient means for folding each succeeding cover in a manner to present at the closed end thereof a flat friction bearing base of the character described in Patent No. 2,101,111, dated December 7, .1937, and also for inserting Within the fold a strip of material which reinforces the base and obviates liability of the outward bowing of the base by opposing pressure on its longitudinal edges during the normal use of the finished match book, particularly when the cover is of relatively thin or' soit pasteboard.

With this object in view my invention com-y prises novel features of construction and combinations of parts'Whic-h in a preferred embodi- .39 ment of my invention will be hereinafter described; the scope of the inventiony being expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a transverse section of the cover inserting end of a match booking machine equipped with coverffolding mechanism and reinforcing-strip feeding and inserting mechanism embodying my invention in a preferred form.

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the said mecha- 4Q nisms. l

Fig. 3 is a front elevation, partlyA in section, of a portion of the booking machine and the associated mechanisms.

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section, as on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional detail of feeding and glue applying rolls for a web of reinforcing material, showing the bed and the cover 'folding devices including a, forming plunger, the leading section of the said material being rep-resented as overlying the cover and severed by the plunger.

Fig. 6 is a vsimilar section of the throat of the channeled folding member and the acting en d of the plunger, the latter being represented in its initial descent within saidmember'and the folded (c1. :as-2,)

cover and the contained reinforcing strip being shown.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the web slitting mechanism; a portion of a web as transversely slit to define reinforcing sections; glue applying disks, and a portion of the forming plunger.

' Fig. 8 illustrates the transversely slitted end portion ofthe web. i

Fig. 9 is a perspective View of a complete match a book having a folded and reinforced base portion il exteriorly coated with ignition material.

Referring' to the` annexed drawings, I5 designates the supporting frame including the table IB of a match booking machine; l1 designates a chain of pocketed links constituting an intermittently-movable carrier whereof the upper run is guided in a trough I8 on the table, and I9 designates the driven cam shaft which, through suitable cam and transmission mechanisms, actuates the carrier and other moving parts of the machine, l

Spaced cover-containing magazines 2|] are supported by brackets 2l on the table, and horizontal chambered slides 22, which are mounted v in guidevvays in the respective brackets, constitute bottoms for the magazines. The top of each slide is provided with a perforated area 23 and the chamber of the slide is connected at one end by means of a flexible tube 24 in controllable communication with a suitable pump (not shown) whereby air is periodically removed from the chamber and the lowermost' coverl (C) in the magazine is thus held flatwlse upon the perfforated area. Hence by reciprocating the slide to move such area'unde'r and beyond the maga.- f3,5 zine each succeeding lowermost c over is removed from the magazine, the respective ends of the cover projecting beyond the slide, as seen in Fig.

4. In the present instance means for simultaneously actuating the slides comprises a pair gill of levers 25 which are suitably mounted beneath the table and are jointed at their upper endsv to the respective slides, the lower ends of vthey levers being equipped with rolls' 25,0 which run in peripherally .grooved cams 26 on the shaft I9. (See Fig. 1.) I

Channeled-folding members 2l aresupported on the inner sides of the respective brackets 2|.

In each member .is formed from top to bottom a curved channel 28 whereof the outer side is open 5p and the top is directly below the adjacent cover when it is withdrawn from the magazine bythe suction slide 2,2. Curved folding blades 29 corresponding with the respective channels of the members 21 are arrangedand adapted to swing 5 6 into and from the channels. Each blade in its downward stroke engages the opposing end portion of the cover and tucks it down into and through the adjacent channel, thereby effecting the folding of such end, and carrying the fold through and just beyond the opposing link of the intermittently movable carrier.

The two blades 29 are borne by arms 30 which are mounted on and concurrently operated vby a rock-shaft SI having its bearings in brackets' 32 rising from the table. is a gear sector 33 in mesh with a similar sector 34 fast on a rearward parallel rock-shaft 35 having its bearings in the wallsof the slotted body portion 35 of a standard 31 which rises from the table. The shaft 35 is encircled by a torsional lspring 38, whereof one end is secured to the shaft 35 and the other` end to a crank arm 39 loose on such shaft. This crank arm has a lateral stud or 'projection 40 which is normally urged by the action of the spring in contact with a toe 4I fast on the shaft 35. The crank arm 39 is connected by means of a link 42 with a rocker-arm 43 bearing a roll 44 which runs in the race of a cam 45 fast on the driven cam shaft I9 of the machine. The contour of the cam race is such as to effect through the connections just described oscilla-tory motion of the rock-shaft 35, thus through the agency of the meshing sectors 33 and 34 oscillating the folding blades.

When the blades are up the slides are pushed endwise toward each other to carry the imposed covers and locate the rearwardly projecting ends of the latter directly under the blades, which blades then descend upon the opposing ends of the covers. The slides then remain at rest for an interval and move back toward the magazines.

When the slides are about half way back the folding blades have reached their extreme down position. In the next or return stroke of the blades the slides continue back to their original position under the magazines in readiness to push forward the next succeeding covers. The portion of the carrier supported on the table is intermittently driven to present two of the links to the open ends of the respective channels 28 of the folding members 21 in timed relation to the operation of the folding blades so as to receive the end folded covers.

The mechanisms thus far described are set out in detail in the patents previously mentioned.

In the preferred form of my invention as herein illustrated the acting end I6 of each of the blades 29, as well as the complementary folding channel therefor, corresponds in width, or substantially so, with that of the friction bearing base (B) to be imparted to the cover, such acting end of the blade being longitudinally grooved, as at M. Mechanisms are provided whereby reinforcing material is positioned above the respective covers and in the paths of the blades preparatory to the effective folding strokes of the latter, to the end that during such strokes opposing reinforcing strips (S) are inserted in thefolded portions of the covers and are introduced therewith into the links of the carrier. The blades with their expanded acting ends constitute forming plungers.

As the mechanisms referred to are alike in construction and operation a description of one will suiice, as follows:

Forwardly of each of the channeled folding members 21 is a housing comprising a standard 48 which is bolted to the table, and which standard is formed with a Wall portion 49 extending Fast on the rock-shaft 3| toward the channeled member. 'Ihe top of the wall is in the same plane, or substantially so, as the top of the channeled member. A side wall 50 having an extension 5I is arranged in spaced parallel relation to the standard and its extension, the whole being connected by integral cross-members 5I0. The standard 48 and wall 50 are connected by a bridge piece 52, and the lower end of Wall is connected to the standard by a foot-bar 53. Supported on the cross-member 5I0 is a horizontal bed 54 the rearward end of which overhangs the forward wall of the folding channel 28, and is' recessed in its under surface, as at 55, to permit the free passage of the cover over the folding channel and in the downward path of the folding blade. (See Figs. 4, 5 and 6l.)

The shafts 56 of a pairof co-acting feed rolls 51 having their bearings in the forward part of the housing are arranged to receive between them a web (W) of material such as cardboard, the same Width as a match cover, or substantially so, which rolls intermittently advance the web along the bed and toward the folding channel.

In the present instance the feed roll shafts are equipped at one end with meshing gears 58, the upper shaft having thereon a ratchet 59 with the teeth of which engages an actuating pawl S0. The pawl is carried by a rock-lever 6I which is loose on the shaft 56 and is operatively connected by means of a rod 462 with the strap 63 of an eccentric 64 fast on a shaft 65-having a bearing in the lower portion of the standard 158. Fast on the shaft 65 is a sprocket wheel 66 which is connected by means of a chain 51 with a similar wheel 68 on the shaft I9. Hence during the operation of the shaft I9 the pawl lever 6i is actuated to effect a regular intermittent rotation of the feed wheels and perforce corresponding step-by-step advancement of the web. (See Figs. 1 and 4.)

In each step of the Web (W) after it leaves the feed-rolls the web is partially severed or weakened transversely thereof to provide a succession of connected sections suitable for reinforcing strips (S) that is, each line of severance a: is interrupted by small frangible connecting portions y. (See Figs. 7 and 8.) In the present instance the partial severance of the web is effected by the action thereon of a vertically-reciprocating cutter blade 69 which overhangs the path of the web rearwardly of the feed-rolls. As seen in Fig. 7 the acting edge of the cutter is interrupted by spaced recesses 10 forming noncutting portions. A suitably-disposed anvil or backer bar 'II for the web is arranged in the bed directly under the cutter.

As herein illustrated the cutter blade is afxed to a cross-head 'l2 which is slidably tted in Vertical guide ways 'I3 in the housing. The upper end of the crossI head is provided with lugs It that are pivotally and slidably connected to a lever arm 15 fast on a transverse shaft 'I6 journalled in lugs 1T on the bridge piece 52. Also fast on the shaft 'I6 is a lever arm I3 which is connected by means of a rod 19 with the strap of an eccentric BI fast on the driven shaft 65 previously referred to, which eccentric effects through the connections just described the reciprocation of the cutter in timed relation to the operation of the web-feeding rolls 51.

Mounted on the cross-head 12, in co-operative relation to the cutter, is a stripper which is effective to hold down the web during the operation of the cutter. In the present instance the extended bearing surface which is yieldingly urged toward and against the top of the web by the action of a compression spring interposed between a laterally projecting lug 86 on the top of the bar 82 and a similar lug 81 fast on'the cross-head. (See Fig. 7.) The bar 82 has therein a vertical slot 88 into which' extends a limiting pin 89 fast on the cross-head. f'

'I'he partially severed'web` progresses' to and past the periphery' of a glue applying device which extends throughan'opening Si! in the bed and applies glue (g) to the succeeding strip sections. In the present instance the device com-V prises three spaced glue-applying disks 9| having a common hub 92`fast on a shaft 93 which has its bearings in boxes 94 Ymounted in the rearward extension 49 of the housing. On one end of the shaft is a gear 95 which is intermittently driven through an idler gear 98 in mesh with the gear 58 of the lower feed roll 58. The disks in their rotationdip'into the contents ofa suitable glue containing vessel 97 which is mounted on a supporting structure 98 on the table I6, thus progressively carrying up the glue and applying it to the opposing surface of the travelling web. The web is held in contact with the disks 9| by means of an overhanging pressure roll 99, the shaft |00 of which is slidably and rotatably mounted in spaced slotted bearings l0| on the bed 5A. ThisI shaft has thereon a gear |92 in mesh with the driven' gear 95 of the glue wheel shaft, the ratio of the gearing in the train between the pressure roll and the feed rolls being such as to rotate the pressure roll and the glue wheel at proper speed.,

Slidably mounted `on the footbar 53 of the housing are scraper blades |03 having their inner or acting ends in cooperative relation with the peripheries of the respective disks 9| so as to regulate the thickness of the films of glue that are carried up to the web by the disks. The outer end of each blade has a `depending slotted lug |04 through which freely' extends the shank of a set screw |05 that is threaded into the foot bar, a compression spring |06 being' interposed between the bar and the lug. Byproperlyv manipulating its set-screw any scraperblade can be nicely adjusted in respect to the glue applying' disk. The disks in conjunction'with the roll 99 serve as an auxiliary feed to advance the par-- tially severed Web and position each succeeding leading strip section over the folding channel and in the path of the descending folding blade.

'Ihe upper surface of the bed 54, inthe area thereof between the glue wheel and the folding channel, is provided with parallel longitudinal grooves 206 located in line with the respective disks 9|, which grooves afford free channels for the glue on the under side of the web. 2, 5 and 6.)

Hold-down means for the web in its progress Vfrom the cutter to the folding channel is provided, Such means, in the form shown, comprising two spaced cross-bars |07 and |08 which are secured to lateral flanges |09 on the bed, the bar |01 being located between the cutter and the rolls, and the bar |08 between the rolls and the folding channel. On the bars |01 and |08 are supported longitudinal strips ||0 and ||I respectively, which strips are in alignment with the spaces between the respective disks 9|.

(See Figs.

f `lrom the foregoing it'will be seen that in the intermittent; travel of kthe web the leading strip section, partially severed from the web and supplied with glue on its under surface, is positioned directly over the adjacent end of the fiat book vcover that is seated at the mouth of the folding channel 28 and across the downward path of the folding blade. Thereupon, during the dwell of the strip, the grooved lower end of the de.- scending blade strikes the opposing strip, separatesv it from the web, and` pushes the strip and the opposing cover through the folding channel, thus folding the leading end portion of the cover and carrying it with its associated reinforcing strip intoand through the carrier link. This done, the. blade resumes its raised position` and a succeeding strip' section is advanced into the path of the blade in the next following down stroke thereof, and s o on.

It is` to b e noted that the concave cross-section of the acting end of the folding blade not only affords a thin longitudinal cutting edge, asat H2, to. effect the easy severance of each strip section presented thereto, but it also Aco-acts with a suitably-disposed complementary convex abutment ||3 located rearwardly adjacent the path ofthe chain, thus imparting to the reinforced base of the cover fold when it has been'forced through the chain link a concave-convex formationV which ensures straight and well-defined longitudinal edges for the basewhen the latter assumes a flat. condition following the passage of the cover from the` abutment. As illustrated the abutment is yieldingly supported by an upstanding spring strip ||4 which is clamped to a suitably-disposed bar |5 at the rear of the table i6. Where, as in the, present instance, two book covers are. introduced in the chain a longitudinally extending cam member I6 is interposed between the two spaced abutmentsso that in the travel The 1 be modifiedwithin the principle ofthe invenf tion and the scopeof the-appended claims.

I claim:

l. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, and means for imposing reinforcing strips on the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, whereby in each folding and forming stroke fthe said plunger a reinforcing strip is introduced flatwise in the fold of the cover.

2. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying coversacross the path of said plunger, and means for feeding a web of reinforcing material to present successive leading end portions thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, whereby in'each folding and forming stroke of the said plunger the opposing leading end portion is severed from the web and introduced flatwise in the fold of the cover.

3. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including aforming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, means for feeding a web of rein'- forcing material to present lsuccessive leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plungenvand means for weakening the web transversely at determined intervals to define the said sections, whereby in each folding and forming stroke of the'said plunger the opposing leading end section is severed from the web and introduced flatwise in the fold of the cover. v

4. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of the plunger, means for feeding a web of reinforcing material to present successive'leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, a cutter for partially slitting the web transversely at determined intervals to define the said sections, a stripper element supported in close relation to said cutter, and means for actuating said cutter and stripper element in timed relation to the feeding means.

5. In a booking machine, thecombination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, means for feeding a web of vreinforcing material to present successive leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, said feeding means including a member for applying glue to one side of the web and a pressure member for the opposite side 'of the web, a cutter for partially slitting the web transversely at predetermined intervals to define the said sections, and means for actuating said cutter in timed relation to the web feeding means.l

6. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, means for feeding a web of reinforcing material to present successive leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, said feeding means including a discal element for applying glue to one side of the web,` a pressure member for the opposite side of the web, and means for actuating the discal element, a cutter for partially slitting the web transversely at determined intervals to define the said sections, and

means for actuating said cutter in timed relation to the feeding means. 'i

7. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, means for feeding a web of reinforcing material to present successive leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, said feeding means including a discal element for applying glue to one side of the web, a pressure member for the opposite side of the web, and meansfor actuating the discal element, a cutter for partially slitting the web transversely at deterintervals to define the said sections, a stripper element supported in close relation to said cutter, and means for actuating said cutter and stripper element in timed relation to the feeding means.

8. In a booking machine, the combination'with cover folding means including' a forming plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, means for feeding a web of reinforcing material to present successive leading end sections thereof to the respective covers and in the effective path of the plunger, said feeding means including two feeding units arranged one in advance of the other and means for actuating said units in timed relation whereby the first unit feeds the web to the second unit and the latter unit feeds the web to the path of the plunger, `a cutter for partially slitting the web transversely at determined intervals to dene the said sections, said cutter located adjacent the second feed unit, and means for actuating said cutter in timed relation to the feeding means.

9. In a booking machine, the combination with cover folding means including a forming plunger having a concave acting portion, a convex abutment with which said concave portion co-acts at the end of the folding and forming stroke of the plunger, means for supplying covers across the path of said plunger, and means for imposing reinforcing strips on the respective covers and in. the effective path of the plunger.

10. In a booking machine' having a carrier for 

